Don't be stupid

Post #96,234 by tuberculosis 4/12/03 2:56:28 PM Reply	Don't be stupid Victorians are notorious for having NO closets (they used armoires). Sez me - recovering old house victim (1900 story and a half victorian in Washington Park). Tip - skip the popular mechanics home repair manuals - they only cover modern construction. Get old-house specific repair books and when hiring tradesmen hire old guys who remember how that stuff was put together. Young guys just want to rip everything out and do it over (kind of like programmers that way). Otherwise - hey congrats! I loved my old house - you're never hurting for something to do on a weekend. "Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes. Contestants in a suicidal race." - Synchronicity II - The Police
Post #96,278 by rcareaga 4/12/03 8:44:47 PM Reply	recovering old house victim? Well, I'm still recovering from the nasty postwar housing I was raised in, back in the San Fernando Valley in the 1950s. The first house I remember properly (I have a few vague and disconnected memories of the previous) was one we moved into, newly-built, in 1955--we subsequently lived in two others within a half-mile radius, each differing in exterior details but identical as to floorplan, by 1962. I thought at the time that everyone lived that way. Two of those three houses wre bulldozed before they turned twenty for what is now called the "Ronald Reagan Freeway." I now own a house built in 1908. I'm confident it will still be standing in fifty years. I doubt whether the single remaining SFV house from my childhood (I visited the neighborhood the other year--a slum) will survive as long. cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #96,300 by kmself 4/12/03 11:12:15 PM Reply	Old stuff lasts longer... ...because the old stuff that didn't last longer has already fallen down. The stuff that's still around is definitionally the better stuff. They made cheap shit back then too. Tarpaper, clapboard, and tin huts don't have much staying power. \r\n\r\n Though I'd have to agree that a lot of modern construction is cheap and shoddy, possibly a higher proportion of mid-market stuff to boot. I actually worked a construction crew for a few months in 1987, doing "California framing" (one nail per side in stud blocking), and "persuading" walls straight. It was an education. --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n

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